A Collection of Offprints from "Asiatick Researches" or Transactions of the Society Instituted in Bengal for inquiring into the History and Antiquities the Arts, Sciences and Literature of Asia.
London. Union Printing Office. 1807. Stock ID #170717 Four booklets, loosely inserted into small manila folders, in good order. When referring to this item please quote stockid 170717.
Volume III: On the Nicobar Isles, and the Fruit of the Mellori (Breadfruit). Black & white folding engraving of the fruit, with a scale in English feet and some music in the text. Pages 160-164. Nicholas Fontana.
Volume IV: On The The Islands of Nancowry and Comarty, pages 121- 125 with an engraving of a Village at Nancowry. R.H. ColeBrooke:
Volume V: Historical Remarks on the Coast of Malabar with some Descriptions of the Manners of Its Inhabitants, by Jonathan Duncan. pages 1-36.
Volume V: 4th edition. An Account of the Pearl Fishery in the Gulph of Manar (Ceylon) in March and April 1797 by Henry J le Beck. Pages 393-411
Volume VII: An Account of the St. Thome Christians on the Coast of Malabar. Vol VII; pages 362 - 380. F. Wrede. Each loose bound section is contained in card wrappers. 21 x13.5cm.
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